Le 04/01/2016 00:08, Tilman Skowroneck écrit :
> It's just not so great to come home, having to get a new program going in a hurry, only to discover that half a day is needed to get one's instrument in shape. I may have been blessed in that my concert tours usually were organisable in day trips from home, even during the most intensive period. If one leaves a harpsichord with quill alone for a longer timespan, it will need some work afterwards.
Why? I often leave quilled instruments unplayed for months, and they
require no work at all (besides tuning). What kind of problems would
need a half a day's work? Why would quill have more "regularity" issues
than delrin? The only problem I once had was that three consecuctive
plectra had been eaten by a moth or other creature while I was away,
along with several boar bristles - this wouldn't have happened with
plastic! (Besides those three notes, I've only changed two plectra in
over two years since I voiced the instrument (both in 2014, none in
2015). Another instrument voiced in September 2013 has had only one
quill replaced since then (on 11.11.2014). I agree with Davitt: quill is
actually less work (and easier work).)
Dennis
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